You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it

Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is You Are an Artist, a journey of creation through which you'll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct a landscape, find your band, and become someone else (or at least try). Your challenge is to filter these assignments through the lens of your own experience and make art that reflects the world as you see it.

You don't have to know how to draw well, stretch a canvas, or mix a paint color that perfectly matches that of a mountain stream. This book is for anyone who wants to make art, regardless of experience level. The only materials you'll need are what you already have on hand or can source for free. Full of insights, techniques, and inspiration from art history, this book opens up the processes and practices of artists and proves that you, too, have what it takes to call yourself one.

You Are an Artist brings together more than 50 assignments gathered from some of the most innovative creators working today, including Sonya Clark, Michelle Grabner, The Guerrilla Girls, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Nina Katchadourian, Toyin Ojih Odutola, J. Morgan Puett, Dread Scott, Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, and many others.
Country USA
Brand Penguin Books
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780143134091
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2020-04-14
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780143134091

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780143134091
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2020-04-14
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780143134091

You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

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